Comments on: Reuters…Getting With The Program?

By: Cavemanus

Cavemanus — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 05:19:14 +0000

Obviously, Reuters is hurting. That is why they allowed Thompson to take them over.

It seems Bloomberg is just killing Reuters.

The beauty of reading (and writing) blogs is you avoid the constrictions of mainstream editorial BS. To sign up with Reuters goes against this spirit and makes no sense.

By: Barry Ritholtz

Barry Ritholtz — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:16:50 +0000

This is the 3rd media venture I have seen with this request:

“You sign the Letters of Agreement from ComScore and Nielsen . . . All traffic to your blog will then be assigned as Reuters traffic.”

In other words, the Nielsen Net Ratings and comScore Media Metrix numbers are now worthless. Web publishers have figured out how to game these, just as CDO underwriters figured how to game Moody’s and Standard & Poors rating (by greasing the pigs).

I will bet you that the web traffic scores will soon be as informative and reliable as a AAA rating on a mortgage back, sub-prime laden CDO.

To err is human, but it takes an MBA to really create a clusterfuck . . . .

By: Broker A

Broker A — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:25:47 +0000

kill them.

By: Howard Lindzon

Howard Lindzon — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:00:50 +0000

never intended to do it, just checking the pulse.

How hard is it if they want a few people to write for them to write a personal email to introduce and follow up chat.

lamo

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:50:34 +0000

Don’t do it. They are already cutting their free and pay stock screeners for lack of demand. Their entire sight must be struggling.

By: wallstreetfighter

wallstreetfighter — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:52:18 +0000

If it makes you feel any better I got an email also. I guess they want to see girls in bikinis on reuters as well. They did send me a $10,000 advance though. Did you get that?

By: Broker A

Broker A — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:36:53 +0000

Also, track them down and rip the tiling off their kitchen floors.

Dude, they’re trying to steal from you.

You gonna take that?

That’s like me emailing you, saying: “Hey goat fucker, do me a favor and send me your fucking wallet, so that I may use it to buy X-mas presents. Oh, by the way, I’ll give you 30% of your money back.

Act now.”

By: bocagirl

bocagirl — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:43:43 +0000

Agree with the comments above. Don’t do it. Reuters has more to gain from this deal than you do, especially since all your traffic gets “assigned to Reuters”. You are already on the cutting edge, they are playing catch up with the blog world, Wallstrip, etc., and would love for people to give them all their original content.

By: fred

fred — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:34:02 +0000

never give your content away for free….!

By: Broker A

Broker A — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:14:04 +0000

Tell them to go fuck themselves and to put you on their ‘do not email list.’